Prosecutors also downgraded the charges against her from second-degree neglect for causing bodily harm to third-degree child neglect.

"I want to be there. I want to feel that baby move inside her. I can't wait to hug and hold my daughter and just kiss her and never let her go," Sierra's mother, Renee Menendez said Monday. "And, yes, I can't wait for the birth of the baby. I know the state is going to take the baby but just those few moments that we have will mean the world to both of us."

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